In her defense, I have gone to uninstall Kazaa on people's machines, and there are some that really do believe that its the only way to listen to their MP3's.
I can corroborate this. I know a guy who quite literally still runs Napster (!) because "it has all my MP3s". I tried explaining the many better alternatives, but he's just not interested.
Wrong. With most backup software, you can just tell it to look for files with the archive bit set or cleared. That's normally the way you address a system-wide automated backup. Otherwise you normally go after specific directories, as you noted.
You can download the.NET framework for free. This includes a command-line compiler. Sure it isn't the Visual Studio IDE, but it does work. (And I've written quite a few useful little utilities that way.)
You have an interesting definition of interoperability. The correct way to export standard C++ code to a C# app would be to expose the C++ code through an existing mechanism -- not munge together.NET-specific wrappers of some kind. Hell, make them a DLL and Visual Studio will do all the hard work for you. Expose them through CORBA and buy one of the off-the-shelf.NET CORBA interop packages. Expose them through COM and Visual Studio will do most of the hard work for you on both ends of the project.
I'm starting to notice the only non-trolls who complain about.NET being hard to use are the die-hard C++ guys who refuse to simply use the tools that are being given to them. I am reminded of the situation about 15 years ago when I used to scoff that nobody could do any serious programming without resorting to assembly, but these days most of the C++ guys I work with don't know the first thing about assembly...
P.S. Yes, I know Atlanta isn't on I-95. Which probably brings up another good point, 4. Amtrak doesn't (and can't) serve remotely as many locations as I-95 does today.
1. If you repaved I-95 from end to end, it would last a lot longer than the subsidy Amtrak is requesting.
2. For a real eye-opener, try scheduling trips on Amtrak between the various cities served by I-95. A friend of mine recently bought into the concept of the "romance" of trains, and subsequently tried to schedule a trip by rail from the West Palm Beach area to Atlanta. By car, this would be a single long day's drive. By plane, it would be a two hour flight. By train, the fastest route available required three days, and somehow involved Louisiana and Alabama.
Two minutes? Under Windows, copying a file from one folder to another would be instantaneous (assuming it's on the same drive, you didn't say). I regularly copy around CD images, and drive-to-drive transfers only take a few seconds. Transfers across our 100Mbps network only take a minute or so. And I'd glady do all that file copying WHILE burning another disc, listening to WinAmp, and doing actual work in the foreground.
You get the same effect with xenon headlights on luxury SUVs
Typical. Compared to the number of luxury cars (high end Mercedes, etc) that come with xenon HID lights from the factory, there are only a tiny handful of SUVs that ship with them. I believe the top-of-the-line model of the Benz M-series SUV and the BMW X5s are the only ones, and they're not exactly commonplace. And the xenon bulb aftermarket is mostly focused on riceboy compacts and subcompacts. Your SUV whining is misplaced.
I just hope they all work CF-style, where the "brains" are on the memory device. You will never see this kind of progress with crap like Sony's MemoryStick. Offloading that much of the brains to the storage medium is actually a pretty cool and unfortunately rare feature. It drives up cost, but you don't save money with things like MemoryStick or Secure Digital Media due to artificial influences on the price (e.g. Sony and other licensing requirements).
VBA is being used currently for a lot of that work - but it is truly horrible.
VBA is isn't horrible. It's the MS Office object models that are pure cluster fucks.
However, what's truly horrible is the code that those same self-taught average office works write. I didn't get the impression that was their target, but if it was, they'd have their work cut out for them.
In my experience, the average office worker's explorations of VBA always follow the same path... they discover it and play with it... they build something useful with it... the useful thing is shared with other workers... it becomes a critical business tool... it fails miserably (possibly causing lots of confusion and/or costing a lot of money)... then it's thrown over the fence to IT for an emergency-fix... What does it do? "We don't know, we just have to run it every morning. It was written by that guy who quit last year. It worked until yesterday."
If these pragmatic-language guys ever decide to tackle the non-professional-programmer experience, they REALLY have their work cut out for them -- and not even the best language in the world can solve the problem of a really badly-designed object model.
What IBM, not MS, did with the PC was to create a middle ground between toy microcomputers and midrange computers that was powerful enough to run real numbers in it, and respectable enough to be bought for office usage.
Quite a few of the "toy" computers that were around when the IBM PC appeared were quite a bit more powerful. What IBM did was create a computer with swappable parts (which made it attractive to hobbyists, giving them the home market, which at the time was strictly hobbyists), and (to elaborate on your own second point) create a computer that had the IBM name on it so that the crusty old bastards who ran corporate computing would get a warm-fuzzy over letting these things into the building.
The original IBM PC was a slow, lame piece of shit, no matter what OS you used. It tends to be glorified in retrospect because it was the distant relative of today's PCs -- but for that we mostly have Intel to thank, not IBM.
I do agree with most of the rest of what you wrote, though.
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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to? -- Clarence Darrow
I don't normally reply to sigs, but correct English require one to say, "to whom are you going to speak?"
I do know that the ending in your sig is now considered acceptable, but acceptable grammar and correct grammar are separate things, and in a sig of this nature, the difference matters. Was it a misquote, or did Clarence outsmart himself?
Microsoft made you pay twice for NT 5. Win2K is NT 5.0, XP is NT 5.1. Same difference.
I'm hoping you got +5 Informative for the MacOS part, and not for the glib MS-bashing crap. While Win2K and XP do share a lot of code, there are significant differences (such as drivers running in the user ring). Unfortunately, most of those differences mean WinXP isn't nearly as stable as Win2K was. If you had a clue, you would have compared Win2K to the Windows Server 2003 family. At the OS level, they're far more closely related than WinXP is to either of them.
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Odd, then, that Ricoh is consistently rated as the best quality media.
I can corroborate this. I know a guy who quite literally still runs Napster (!) because "it has all my MP3s". I tried explaining the many better alternatives, but he's just not interested.
You are making the huge and generally unwise assumption that NASA will spend that money appropriately.
Wrong. With most backup software, you can just tell it to look for files with the archive bit set or cleared. That's normally the way you address a system-wide automated backup. Otherwise you normally go after specific directories, as you noted.
Trust me, that's a major benefit.
You can download the .NET framework for free. This includes a command-line compiler. Sure it isn't the Visual Studio IDE, but it does work. (And I've written quite a few useful little utilities that way.)
I'm starting to notice the only non-trolls who complain about .NET being hard to use are the die-hard C++ guys who refuse to simply use the tools that are being given to them. I am reminded of the situation about 15 years ago when I used to scoff that nobody could do any serious programming without resorting to assembly, but these days most of the C++ guys I work with don't know the first thing about assembly...
P.S. Yes, I know Atlanta isn't on I-95. Which probably brings up another good point, 4. Amtrak doesn't (and can't) serve remotely as many locations as I-95 does today.
2. For a real eye-opener, try scheduling trips on Amtrak between the various cities served by I-95. A friend of mine recently bought into the concept of the "romance" of trains, and subsequently tried to schedule a trip by rail from the West Palm Beach area to Atlanta. By car, this would be a single long day's drive. By plane, it would be a two hour flight. By train, the fastest route available required three days, and somehow involved Louisiana and Alabama.
3. Trains are not quiet.
Two minutes? Under Windows, copying a file from one folder to another would be instantaneous (assuming it's on the same drive, you didn't say). I regularly copy around CD images, and drive-to-drive transfers only take a few seconds. Transfers across our 100Mbps network only take a minute or so. And I'd glady do all that file copying WHILE burning another disc, listening to WinAmp, and doing actual work in the foreground.
Typical Democrat.
-1 Overrated? Ooo, we have a Christer with mod points...
Buy a bigger car.
So what you're saying is, you're a Christian troll?
Typical. Compared to the number of luxury cars (high end Mercedes, etc) that come with xenon HID lights from the factory, there are only a tiny handful of SUVs that ship with them. I believe the top-of-the-line model of the Benz M-series SUV and the BMW X5s are the only ones, and they're not exactly commonplace. And the xenon bulb aftermarket is mostly focused on riceboy compacts and subcompacts. Your SUV whining is misplaced.
I just hope they all work CF-style, where the "brains" are on the memory device. You will never see this kind of progress with crap like Sony's MemoryStick. Offloading that much of the brains to the storage medium is actually a pretty cool and unfortunately rare feature. It drives up cost, but you don't save money with things like MemoryStick or Secure Digital Media due to artificial influences on the price (e.g. Sony and other licensing requirements).
VBA is isn't horrible. It's the MS Office object models that are pure cluster fucks.
However, what's truly horrible is the code that those same self-taught average office works write. I didn't get the impression that was their target, but if it was, they'd have their work cut out for them.
In my experience, the average office worker's explorations of VBA always follow the same path... they discover it and play with it... they build something useful with it... the useful thing is shared with other workers... it becomes a critical business tool... it fails miserably (possibly causing lots of confusion and/or costing a lot of money)... then it's thrown over the fence to IT for an emergency-fix... What does it do? "We don't know, we just have to run it every morning. It was written by that guy who quit last year. It worked until yesterday."
If these pragmatic-language guys ever decide to tackle the non-professional-programmer experience, they REALLY have their work cut out for them -- and not even the best language in the world can solve the problem of a really badly-designed object model.
I wish someone would mod you up.
Quite a few of the "toy" computers that were around when the IBM PC appeared were quite a bit more powerful. What IBM did was create a computer with swappable parts (which made it attractive to hobbyists, giving them the home market, which at the time was strictly hobbyists), and (to elaborate on your own second point) create a computer that had the IBM name on it so that the crusty old bastards who ran corporate computing would get a warm-fuzzy over letting these things into the building.
The original IBM PC was a slow, lame piece of shit, no matter what OS you used. It tends to be glorified in retrospect because it was the distant relative of today's PCs -- but for that we mostly have Intel to thank, not IBM.
I do agree with most of the rest of what you wrote, though.
Yes, I know, "requires". :)
I don't normally reply to sigs, but correct English require one to say, "to whom are you going to speak?"
I do know that the ending in your sig is now considered acceptable, but acceptable grammar and correct grammar are separate things, and in a sig of this nature, the difference matters. Was it a misquote, or did Clarence outsmart himself?
My mistake.
There is no link in the Parent.
I'm hoping you got +5 Informative for the MacOS part, and not for the glib MS-bashing crap. While Win2K and XP do share a lot of code, there are significant differences (such as drivers running in the user ring). Unfortunately, most of those differences mean WinXP isn't nearly as stable as Win2K was. If you had a clue, you would have compared Win2K to the Windows Server 2003 family. At the OS level, they're far more closely related than WinXP is to either of them.
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